Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

chipper1 · 2025-02-24T08:04:44-0500

davidwyby said:
Got ole Betsy back

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New firewood chaser?

JimR · 2025-02-24T08:08:28-0500

chipper1 said:
How many now?
At one time I had a pretty big pile, but that's been gone for yrs now. I sold a lot of it off, but pulled a little out for myself when needed too.
This was after a lot had been sold off the end. I was doing quite bit of tree work that yr, after that I tried not to brias much wood home lol.

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This was taken from where the pole barn is now, the fall before I cleared the site for it, 2016. Time flies...
It eventually went all the way to the large multi-stem elm on the left and wrapped around it.
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I sold off 43 cord. The bottom of the pile was junk. That now reside off in the woods to rot away. Last year I had 14 cord stacked. There was 4 for me to burn and the rest was sold off. Right now I think I have about 2 cord split and 6 - 8 needing to be split. There are 6 Ash trees all bucked up waiting to be brought in.

JimR · 2025-02-24T08:17:27-0500

WoodAbuser said:
What happened to the floor covering thread?

It got nailed down.

chipper1 · 2025-02-24T08:21:35-0500

JimR said:
I sold off 43 cord. The bottom of the pile was junk. That now reside off in the woods to rot away. Last year I had 14 cord stacked. There was 4 for me to burn and the rest was sold off. Right now I think I have about 2 cord split and 6 - 8 needing to be split. There are 6 Ash trees all bucked up waiting to be brought in.

That's awesome.
I think I'm about where you're at currently, around 2 cord I split last spring I'll put right in the woodshed for next season, the 6-8 in rounds, when I'm splitting that this spring/ summer I'll separate anything that was dead standing or cut two yrs ago and put it in to finish off next seasons wood. I only need 7 cord total to fill both sides, so there will be a bit left over to refill for 29-30 or to sell, then I have a lot of logs to buck whenever I get to that. Really wish the logs in front of the barn weren't there, that being said, in another 10yrs I'll wish I had more

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JimR · 2025-02-24T08:30:09-0500

chipper1 said:
That's awesome.
I think I'm about where you're at currently, around 2 cord I split last spring I'll put right in the woodshed for next season, the 6-8 in rounds, when I'm splitting that this spring/ summer I'll separate anything that was dead standing or cut two yrs ago and put it in to finish off next seasons wood. I only need 7 cord total to fill both sides, so there will be a bit left over to refill for 29-30 or to sell, then I have a lot of logs to buck whenever I get to that. Really wish the logs in front of the barn weren't there, that being said, in another 10yrs I'll wish I had more .

I need to do an Ash tree count to see how many more that need to come down. Yesterday I found a dozen more near my house that have to come down. Damn EAB got to them. A few are dying from Ash blight that we had 5 - 6 years ago.